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tfm --> mf backconversion?

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From: Bruce H. McIntosh
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 01:18
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Does anyone know of the existence of a utility that can take a .tfm
file and derive metafont source from it?  The reason I'm asking is this:

UF has just Laid Down The Law about any and all official publications, to
wit: all text MUST, unless utterly unavoidable, be in the Palatino font.
I recently found a decent pd Palatino derivative in a Type 1 font for our
Pagemaker person, but I write all our tech docs and correspondence in LaTeX,
and have been unable to find a Palatino font.  I've heard that Pandora is
supposed to be a poor rendition, but am looking for something better. (And
to head off the obvious question, I don't have dvips and was not looking
forward to having to get it, as I'd *then* have to implement Ghostscript, 
and even 160mb of hard disk only goes so far! :-) )

Bruce H. McIntosh    bhm@cis.ufl.edu                        Jesus has risen!
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Subject: tfm --> mf backconversion?
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